it just worked for if I set the mouse device to /dev/input/mouse1
and the touchpad to /dev/input/event0. whenever I tried to configure both as mouse or event device the touchpad got disabled.
and it's also very important to set touchpad as

2.60-test6-mm4 and XFree 4.3-r3: Sony GRX 550
touchpad works great. I had to remove my old psmouse_ext=1 hack from my grub file. Horizontal and vertical scrolling where available (eg. Firebird, Evolution)

Hi,
Does anybody has an working config for alps touchpads (for example Dell Inspiron 8200)? I has compiled my kernel with alps patch, enabled event interface and synaptics enabled... I've tried the X Input Section from the INSTALL file (from the packaged mentioned on top of the thread) and the config in this thread.Nothing works. I can use the buttons, and taping the touchpad works too, but no movement of the cursor!

If i enabled SharedMemory to use synclient i get an "No touchpad found!" message. I've looked at the source and there is an blabla->issynaptics==true line, maybe the alps patch returns false... so this has not to be a big deal.

I use /dev/input/event0 because my keyboard's handle is event1. I know the touchpad (probably) works in console as cat /dev/input/event0 gives lots of gibberish if i move finger on the pad. However in X only tapping on the pad and pushing buttons works. I cannot move the cursor. Any idea?

yeah I downloaded the tarball and compiled the driver myself. it's really weird...it's not clear from the X log message that sth's obviously wrong either. for now i'm back to the plain touchpad -- pretty irritating not being able to finger-scroll if u have any other tricks let me know! thanks.

I have just made a new install of gentoo on my laptop and decided to go with the newest gentoo-dev-sources kernel, udev and xorg-x11. I am having an especially hard time trying to get my synaptics touchpad to work... i have followed the information on this and other threads, made the necessary adjustments to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, etc but i am unable to locate the event to ascribe to the touchpad. I have tried all cat /dev/input/eventX but each time get "no such device" error. on startx i also get "no synaptics event device found(checked 5 nodes)" and "Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices" ... what am i missing here??? would it be wise to use mknod to create the device beforehand???

my touchpad and trackpoint work perfectly fine, but i'm having no luck get a ps/2 mouse working when the laptop is plugged into a docking station. Thinkpad T40. the keyboard works find, just no mouse. though the touchpad still works.

Ok, here are the problems...
If I have the xorg.conf like that, the keyboard is not responding, like a dead keyboard...
I do have the synaptics driver installed and I double checked that the synaptic uses /dev/input/event1
Any idea? how to solve that? I have been playing for a week with synaptics, but can't see a damned issue for this problem

Ok, here are the problems...
If I have the xorg.conf like that, the keyboard is not responding, like a dead keyboard...
I do have the synaptics driver installed and I double checked that the synaptic uses /dev/input/event1
Any idea? how to solve that? I have been playing for a week with synaptics, but can't see a damned issue for this problem

Ludo

Hmm I see that you have 2 touchpad devices, try and delete the line:

Code:

InputDevice "Touchpad" "CorePointer"

and instead of InputDevice "Mouse [touchpad]" "SendCoreEvents" it should be:

Code:

InputDevice "Mouse [touchpad]" "CorePointer"

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Hmmm. In Windows I can double tap on a window, drag it somewhere, then tap again and continue dragging. There is a delay before the drag behaviour is reset. This helps if you're highlighting lots of text and moving across the touchpad once isn't enough. You have time to move your finger back before the selection is lost.

I seem to have the opposite problem. I haven't done anything at all to get Synaptics working on my laptop, and everything works - the side scroll bar, tap to click, etc. This is AMD64 kernel 2.6.7. In xorg.conf, my mouse section has protocol IMPS/2 and device /dev/mouse.

My problem is that I'm not getting sound events. I hear the startup and shutdown tunes play, but no event sounds play other than those. I'm wondering if it might be a interrupt conflict with the Synaptics. How can I remove the Synaptics if I haven't done anything to load it?_________________Guy Rouillier